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Zdeno Chara will captain the team, Jaroslav Halak will start in goal and Marian Hossa is its best forward. Tomas Tatar, who has eight goals as a rookie for the Detroit Red Wings, is also on the roster. Fourteen NHL players in all are heading to Sochi. OLYMPIC HOCKEY ROSTERS: Sweden | Czech Republic | Finland | Latvia Goalkeepers Peter Budaj, Montreal Canadiens (NHL) Jaroslav Halak, St. Louis Blues (NHL) Jan Laco, Donbass Donetsk (UKR/KHL) Defensemen Ivan Baranka, Avangard Omsk (RUS) Dominik Granak, Dynamo Moscow (RUS) Zdeno Chara, Boston Bruins (NHL) Martin Marincin, Edmonton Oilers (NHL) Andrej Meszaros, Philadelphia Flyers (NHL) Andrej Sekera, Carolina Hurricanes (NHL) Michal Sersen, Slovan Bratislava (SVK/KHL) Lubomir Visnovsky, New York Islanders (NHL) Forwards Milan Bartovic, Slovan Bratislava (SVK/KHL) Marian Gaborik, Columbus Bluejackets (NHL) Michal Handzus, Chicago Blackhawks (NHL) Marcel Hossa, Dinamo Riga (LAT/KHL) Marian Hossa, Chicago Blackhawks (NHL) Tomas Jurco, Detroit Red Wings (NHL) Tomas Kopecky, Florida Panthers (NHL) Tomas Marcinko, HC Kosice (SVK) Michel Miklik, Slovan Bratislava (SVK/KHL) Peter Ölvecky, Slovan Bratislava (SVK/KHL) Richard Panik, Tampa Bay Lightning (NHL) Tomas Surovy, Dynamo Minsk (BLR/KHL) Tomas Tatar, Detroit Red Wings (NHL) Tomas Zaborsky, Salavat Yulayev Ufa (RUS)

Try wearing some and doing four cartwheels in a row. MORE: 10 unforgettable moments in the Red Wings-Avalanche rivalry | Canadiens’ Twitter debacle shows racism the problem That’s what Orebro goalie Julius Hudacek of the Swedish Hockey League did after a recent 2-1 overtime victory. Known for exuberant celebrations (via Puck Daddy), Hudacek led the crowd in waving their arms before he did his quadruple acrobatic stunt. He then hopped on his hockey stick and skated away like a witch....

With this being the Zouks’ second home game, they will look to get back into winning ways against the St Kitts and Nevis Patriots side, which is on the rise. SNP have four wins out of eight games, and a win on Wednesday could assure them a spot in the knockouts. On the other hand, the Zouks are in the bottom half with only three points from six games. and with time running out fast for Daren Sammy and his men, one can expect the likes of Colin Ingram and Obed McCoy to turn in match winning performances....

Chicagoist.com has an interview with Mick Foley, who was promoting his upcoming Tales from Wrestling Past stand-up comedy show at Zanie’s Comedy Club in Rosemont, Ill. During the interview, Foley compared cutting promos in a wrestling ring to speaking at comedy clubs. “The two share as many similarities as differences,” Foley said. “I enjoy going out and doing my thing in WWE, but I wouldn’t say I enjoy it more than playing in front of a club of 200 people....

On Thursday, a procession of cars and people near Kabul’s airport carried long black, red and green banners, the colors of the national flag. Wednesday, the Taliban violently dispersed a protest in the city of Jalalabad where protestors lowered the Taliban’s flag and replaced it with Afghanistan’s. At least one person was killed. At a protest in Nangarhar province, a video posted online showed a demonstrator bleeding from a gunshot wound, and onlookers tried to carry him away....

Game Builder Garage was announced a month ago and released on June 11th. The game walks players through making little minigames such as “Tag Showdown,” “Thrill Racer,” and “On a Roll.” Once the player has made the preset games, the player then has the freedom to make any game they desire with in-game assets, putting to use what they learned while playing the title. RELATED: Masahiro Sakurai Parody Account Shut Down...

As the much-awaited harvest festivals are already here, Snapchat has also decided to roll out new lenses to mark the occasion. The leading social media platform is featuring dedicated AR lenses for the regional harvest festivals starting from today. Region based festive lenses for Vaisakhi Season The popular social media platform has listed various spring festivals celebrated in different parts of India. For instance, Vaisakhi is a popular festival in Punjab and other Northern and Western regions of India....

The social media messaging app just announced a new service that inserts advertisements in the middle of stories, with a portion of the revenue going directly to creators, as noted in an official company press release. The program is only available for the most popular Snapchat content creators, also known as ‘Snap Stars.’ If you’re unfamiliar with the machinations of Snapchat, think of a Snap Star as a Twitter blue checkmark....

Twitter and Facebook are great glimpses of the events, but the photos and videos contain no “raw” video that makes a fan feel like he or she is actually there. Enter Snapchat’s “our story” feature. MORE: Campus-wide branding | Leveraging digital media | Branded Entertainment If you are a Snapchat user, odds are that you have already seen this unique feature that was rolled out to all users in August after a beta testing period in June and July....

MORE: Rare photos inside Fenway’s Green Monster | Jerry Sandusky’s $4,900-a-month pension to be reinstated It doesn’t exactly rekindle memories of Teddy Ballgame, Yaz, Fisk’s homer or the Idiots, but it is interesting since it will be the first football game at Fenway since 1968. Various professional football teams called Fenway home intermittently between 1926 and 1968, when the Boston Patriots moved out. It’s all sports, just different stripes.

In a survey sent out by Microsoft to Xbox Live Reward members, the company may have inadvertently revealed one of Nintendo’s big E3 announcements. The questionnaire asks respondents how interested they are in five different “specific E3 announcements,” including upcoming game releases, the PS4 Pro, Xbox Project Scorpio, the Nintendo Switch and the “Nintendo SNES Classic Edition”. Interestingly, it also quizzed survey takers on what they like about the Nintendo Switch, such as its price, its Joy-Con controllers and its catalogue of games....

RELATED: Resident Evil 4: Treasures Only Experts Found Another incentive for exploring each level is to find collectibles. Each level has a handful of collectibles to find, which either tell an interesting tale or provide further insight into an in-game character. Mount Kuamar is the game’s second level and is one of two maps to feature ten collectibles. In the pictures below, the collectible is located at the white dot within the blue cursor....

The 44-year-old rapper had media credentials courtesy of the “Rich Eisen Show” and spent a lot of the day asking the athletes random questions. It was actually a relief for some of them to hear something different for a change. Questions like, “First of all, can I get a 50 percent discount on Papa John’s pizzas when I’m in the state of Colorado?” MORE: Famous faces you’ll see in Super Bowl ads | Events better than the Super Bowl...

According to the National Weather Service, over 70 percent of the U.S. was covered by snow on Thursday. On average, coverage was 6.2 inches deep. On Thursday, Google searches for how to stay safe while shoveling snow spiked in the U.S., as people appeared to investigate how to move snow without hurting their backs, or exacerbating heart problems. The authors of a 2011 study published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine estimated there are 11,500 snow shovel-related injuries in the U....

And yes, as some of the tweets and Vines indicated, the police got involved. More details of what went down are in the RedditCFB thread.

There was every sense in Madison Square Garden that if the Kings forged a tie late in the third period, Los Angeles would score again in overtime and lift the Cup, the same way that the Mets felt certain to lose Game 7 of the 1986 NLCS against Mike Scott and the Houston Astros had they not prevailed in 16 innings in Game 6. Nothing in hockey is certain, so the Rangers still may have won, but Stepan made a potentially iconic play after Jeff Carter poked a rebound of an Alec Martinez shot past Henrik Lundqvist and onto a tiny bank of snow on the goal line, where it came to a stop before Stepan reached out his hand to shove the puck back under his goalie and bring play to a stop with 1:11 left in the third period, helping to preserve the Rangers' series-extending 2-1 victory....

We all understand that like any business endeavor, franchising your business is work. But true success isn’t a matter of monthly revenue and the number of locations on a map. Those are obviously important, but they come in through the back door. The most important reason why you should expand your business through franchising is what opens the front door — what brings you passion and fills you with a sense of adventure, while at the same time filling a need and bringing joy to others....

Australia’s 2-0 loss away to Japan last week put their qualifying hopes on a knife edge. They need to beat Thailand in Melbourne on Tuesday then hope Japan can hold Saudi Arabia to a draw or better in Jeddah to grab the second direct berth to next year’s tournament in Russia. Australia can still qualify from third place but would need to negotiate home and away playoffs against the third-placed team in the other Asian group then a side from the North, Central and Caribbean (CONCACAF) region....

BARCELONA (Reuters) - Former Valencia president Jaume Orti, who presided over the club’s last two Liga title wins in 2002 and 2004, has died aged 70 from lung cancer, the club said on Friday. “Valencia CF expresses its disbelief and its dearest condolences after the death of former club president Jaume Orti this Friday,” said a statement on the club’s official website (www.valenciacf.com). “The club has been in permanent contact with his family and wishes to express its sympathy to all those connected with the man who was president of Valencia between July 2001 and October 2004, coinciding with the club’s most successful period in its recent history....